Last week on Marie Anelle’s post about parenting and children’s weight, Harpy reader mischiefmanager and I got into a discussion about routine weight-monitoring at doctor’s offices. She suggested the topic really deserved a thread all of its own, so blog goddess that I am I’ve...

Last week, Hanna sent me a news story from The Guardian’s science page about a woman in England who has agreed to donate her uterus to her infertile daughter in hopes that the organ transplant will allow her daughter to carry a pregnancy to term:
A woman in Nottingham has agreed to donate her womb...

A writer over at The Hairpin wrote a great piece on her breast reduction. As a chesty teenager, I knew by age 16 that I wanted to have the surgery and finally had it at 22, with the full support of my family. Luckily, my $10,000 bill was fully covered by insurance after I provided Aetna will evidence...

In the past four months, 916 anti-abortion bills have been proposed at the state-level. I have sat by and watched as this happened, feeling helpless and incapable of giving coverage to all of it. A sampling:
Connecticut
Florida
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Texas
And today, the U.S. House passed H.R. 3, the...

Step 1: Use women’s health—which, unfortunately, is CONTROVERSIAL in this country!—as a bargaining chip in the federal budget battle, holding the country hostage and threatening a government shut-down if they don’t get their way;
Step 2: Watch as people lash out at reproductive rights advocates...

My insane schedule of late kept me from blogging for a while, and also kept me from paying careful attention to most news (Libya? What’s that?), but I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things.
Since, even from the depths of my work-cave, I was constantly hearing messages about the...

This past Sunday evening Hanna, Minerva and I started swapping personal anecdotes about friends and acquaintances who, at one time or another, showed a startling lack of knowledge about their own bits and how to use them. What can I say. This is what happens when you get a women’s studies major,...

By now you may have heard that television reporter Serene Branson suffered a migraine on national television. As a longtime migraine sufferer, I can’t bring myself to watch the video that has spewed some of the most hateful comments I have seen on the Internet in years. Like Serene, I suffer...

Just stopping by to say hello and share with you these videos of two three! amazing Congresswomen speaking out against the Pence Amendment on the House floor. The Pence Amendment would cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood.
I am simultaneously shaking in anger and beaming with pride. Representatives...

I dream that someday NARAL’s Blog for Choice Day will be a thing of the past, because the idea that a woman wouldn’t have absolute sovereignty over her own body will be laughable to the point of absurdity.
However, until that day comes, you can bet that I’ll be taking part and speaking...

Get comfy?
Just before the holidays hit me like a Mack truck, I quit therapy. For the third time over the course of about 2 years (I started during the Great Freakout of Aught-Nine, partially documented here*). Although this time I had different reasons: the first time I quit primarily because...